In the lobby of the law school I attended is a tile mosaic that was done by an artist / dentist. The challenge for first year students is to find the tooth set in the pattern. Can you incorporate the tooth into the valentine's design?

I am smiling.... My hubby as spent the past few nights with a pot of gold glitter and some glue. He is decorating a sleigh and 4 reindeer for next Christmas. He hopes to hang the whole thing from the ceiling........ I think it must be the season for men with a crafting streak.... My kitchen floor has a faint dusting of glitter now but I doubt I will receive a beautiful blinged up tin as a pen pot...

I think newer readers of Going Gently Have missed the irony in this blog entry. These desk tidy gifts have been an " in joke" between the prof and I over the years. I have made him several for birthdays and christmas tee hee

That Kit-e-Kat tin will take some beating in the pen tidy stakes; the Prof will need to get his thinking cap on.That lovely bulldog has the most photogenic face - you can't help but take a good photo of her. Adorable!

Praise be, I have been mentioned on the Going Gently Blog, I am indeed very honoured and will now include it on my CV !!!!

Now back to the matter in hand, The Tin Can, now I have to say you have somehow managed to pull it together (obviously due to many years of tin can creations), I am impressed with the placement of, the floral embellishments, I can even see a slight resemblance in design to Cath Kidston (or was it Ethel Austin !!) maybe even ever so slightly Liberty ISH !!

However, I now have to move on to the contents of the aforementioned tin. Now ,I talked of the status of the man himself, a Prof no less, I do feel his Profness, warranted, maybe a Papermate Pen or, indeed a Parker, not pens from the pound shop, even a few free pencils from Ikea !!

John, I looked at your pen holder yesterday and thought to myself ohhhhh deeaaarr!!!Today I am so impressed ... truly a labour of love and it has the look of love.I'm not really a fan of bulldogs, but Winnie does look like an angel in this pic; she is so peacefully sleeping the sleep of the just.Thank you for your blog; I seem to have 'going gently' acquired an addiction to a daily fix of 'life in Trelawnyd'.